Before hiring a social media consultant, a business organization is likely to be keen on understanding how such a professional can add value to it. It emerges that there are at least two levels at which a social media consultant can add value to a business organization.

The first level at which a social media consultant can add value to a business organization is the level at which the consultant can help the organization in acquiring, analyzing and utilizing business intelligence. Social media can be a rich source of business intelligence, just as we have the prison phone calls made by inmates during incarceration (typically using inmate account cards) being rich potential sources of security intelligence. Of course, translating the non-serious banter in social media into useful business intelligence can be a technically demanding piece of work.

The second level at which a social media consultant can add value to a business organization is the level at which the consultant can help the organization in carrying out public relations work. That may be under a scheme where the consultant does the actual public relations work. It may also be under a scheme where the consultant crafts the systems under which the public relations work is to be done for the organization using social media (by all the other members of the organization).

There are some three models under which politicians maintain social media pages.

The first model under which politicians maintain social media pages is the one where they personally update the said social media pages.

The second model under which politicians maintain social media pages is the one where they have their official assistants (the ones they have by virtue of their political offices) updating the social media pages on their behalf. This can become necessary in situations where the politicians in question happen to be non-conversant with the technology that the social media pages are based. You know that in this world, there are people who are real tech-phobes: like where. For instance, you encounter a person who can’t even activate a card online on account of him or her not knowing how to use the Internet to access the specific website where he can do the activation. This can also be a situation where the politician is simply too busy to do his or her own personal social media work.

The third model under which politicians maintain social media pages is the one where they have their personal assistants updating the social media pages on their behalf. The reasons for this can be akin to those for the situation where the social media pages are updated by official aides.

Social media is here to stay for quite a while. There are, however, some three things that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it.

The first thing that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it is the realization, on the part of social media users, that they are giving up too much information about themselves on the social media platforms.

The second thing that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it is the emergence of another fad: which people take up, while abandoning social media. That is just the nature of people: that they are very excited by new things.

The third thing that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it is where people simply get bored with social media and stop using it. Actually, this has already happened with some people: under a scheme where many of the early adopters of social media have, by now, gotten bored and stopped using it whenever they are online. What has kept social media alive is the fact that there has been a continual flow of new people online, meaning that those who get bored are quickly replaced.

Having decided to hire a social media consultant, a point will come when you will have to do interviews for the position. We venture to look at questions you should ask when interviewing such a professional.

The first question you must ask when interviewing a prospective social media consultant, is as to what technical qualifications he or she has for the work.

The second question you must ask when interviewing a prospective social media consultant is as to how much experience he or she has in this type of work. At a technical level, the experience doesn’t seem to really matter: given the fact that social media experience is much like www.gmail.com experience. But still using the example of Gmail, there is more nuanced side to it: with respect to things like Gmail etiquette and things like knowledge of Gmail.com shortcuts. Those are the areas where experience would come in. Similarly, there are more nuanced aspects of social media usage, especially when social media is being used in a corporate setting for official uses, and it is for those things that experience is relevant.

The third question you must ask when interviewing a prospective social media consultant is as to what his or her expectations are, for the job.

Social media can be used for carrying out customer support functions. There are actually two models through which social media can be used in customer support.

The first model through which social media can be used in customer support is that in which customers’ queries are attended on a one on one basis through the social media. Thus, for instance, Twitter accounts can be created for this purpose: where you have customers typing in queries, and those queries being answered on Twitter in real time by people who are employed to do just that. Phone companies as well as the companies in the financial sector, have been known to use this model with considerable levels of success. Actually, when properly deployed, this model can reduce the numbers of queries that have to be addressed through the phone.

The second model through which social media can be used in customer support is that in which social media pages containing answers to the most frequently asked questions by customers are created and publicized. This is a less-than-ideal model, especially seeing that the customers could always get these answers from the main websites. Still, it is a good starting point for companies seeking to offer customer support through social media.

Mainstream media companies (like those that operate major TV stations, radio stations and newspapers) use social media in certain ways. The social media we are making reference to is in the form of things like Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz. The latter is a Google product, and it seems as if Google has a system where the moment you initiate Gmail usage at the www.gmail.com online site, you get a chance to open a Google Buzz account which then makes you a social media user.

The first way in which mainstream media companies use social media is where they leverage on its power to get real-time reports on events (from reporters as well as other people witnessing the events).

The second way in which mainstream media companies use social media is where they leverage on its power to get feedback on the content they present.

The third way in which mainstream media companies use social media is where they leverage on its power to market their content. It is worth noting, for instance, that most TV program presenters have official Twitter handles, which they use to announce things like expected guest appearances, thus encouraged viewers to tune in. Newspaper publishers use social media in a similar manner to push readership numbers up.

Social media is different from mainstream media in several fundamental ways.

Firstly, mainstream media is easier to control than social media (for the government authorities). Mainstream media operators can be easily controlled with threats of having their broadcasting licenses being withdrawn than social media operatives, who can always claim to be just exercising their right of expression. The question of threatening to withdraw the licenses of social media operatives simply doesn’t arise. Doing so would be akin to threatening to withdraw www.ymail.com licenses which most people using Ymail media for sending emails would view as an absurd threat, thanks to the fact that Ymail.com programming is done in such a manner that each user has his or her own account. So if you withdraw the entire license, you’d end up affecting too many people. And if you close individual accounts, the users whose accounts are closed can always set up new ones. Ultimately, the governments have figured out that the best way to control social media is by ignoring it.

Secondly, mainstream media is easier to monetize than social media (for the media operatives).

Thirdly, mainstream media is generally regarded as being more credible than social media. This is in spite of the fact that the messages from mainstream media are often very heavily ‘sanitized.’

Most governments in the world endeavor to control mainstream media. The more sophisticated ones control mainstream media through direct means. The less sophisticated ones control mainstream media directly, via censorship. Either way, mainstream media is controlled. But, surprisingly, most governments don’t see the need to control social media. We venture to find out why that is the case.

The first reason as to why most governments don’t see the need to control social media is because they know that the influence of such social media is limited.

The second reason as to why most governments don’t see the need to control social media is because they view it as a tool through which people can ventilate, thus reducing the chances of them revolting.

The third reason as to why most governments don’t see the need to control social media is because they view it as a tool through which they can collect intelligence. Through social media, it becomes possible for the governments to know what the people are thinking. If, for instance, the Georgia state government sets up a new social service to help poor Georgia residents buy food or to prevent homelessness it will, naturally, want to know what people are thinking about it. And social media can be helpful in that regard.

Firstly, you can decide to use social media to update the people you left behind, on the progress of your journey. This is important, because they may otherwise start having fears about your safety and general wellbeing. At another level, updating the people you left behind on your progress helps you share the experience with them, which is important, because the nature of some things is such that they tend to be more enjoyable when they are shared.

Secondly, you can decide to use social media to share what you encounter (say, in terms of sights) with the folks you left behind. This you can do through, among others, the photo sharing sites.

Thirdly, you can use social media to receive suggestions on things you can do and places you can visit, in the course of your journey (especially from people who have made similar journeys before).

Fourthly, you can use social media to receive information on happenings back home, from the people you left behind. That way, when you get back to wherever you came from, you don’t end up being totally disoriented. The updates you will have been receiving will help you get up and running fast enough.

It is possible for you to get paid for your blogging passion. That whole thing is referred to as ‘blogging for money.’ And there are at least three models you can use in blogging for money.

The first model you can use in blogging for money would be that in which you establish your own blogs and then monetize them.

The second model you can use in blogging for money would be the one where you get employment as a social media expert, and where your work ends up revolving around blogging. You may, for instance, be hired by a company like the one that runs the email service to correctional facilities, accessible at www.corrlinks.com, and commonly referred to as the Corrlinks prison email system. The brief would be for you to serve as the company’s social media director: maintaining its micro-blogging accounts, as well as the full-fledged blog domains. You can even be hired by a government department for this sort of role. Pretty much all types of organizations are turning to social media, and hiring experienced bloggers to serve as social media strategy advisors/implementers.

The third model you can use in blogging for money would be the one where you offer your services in the open market as a freelance writer, specializing in the production of blog articles.

Before hiring a social media consultant, a business organization is likely to be keen on understanding how such a professional can add value to it. It emerges that there are at least two levels at which a social media consultant can add value to a business organization.

The first level at which a social media consultant can add value to a business organization is the level at which the consultant can help the organization in acquiring, analyzing and utilizing business intelligence. Social media can be a rich source of business intelligence, just as we have the prison phone calls made by inmates during incarceration (typically using inmate account cards) being rich potential sources of security intelligence. Of course, translating the non-serious banter in social media into useful business intelligence can be a technically demanding piece of work.

The second level at which a social media consultant can add value to a business organization is the level at which the consultant can help the organization in carrying out public relations work. That may be under a scheme where the consultant does the actual public relations work. It may also be under a scheme where the consultant crafts the systems under which the public relations work is to be done for the organization using social media (by all the other members of the organization).

There are some three models under which politicians maintain social media pages.

The first model under which politicians maintain social media pages is the one where they personally update the said social media pages.

The second model under which politicians maintain social media pages is the one where they have their official assistants (the ones they have by virtue of their political offices) updating the social media pages on their behalf. This can become necessary in situations where the politicians in question happen to be non-conversant with the technology that the social media pages are based. You know that in this world, there are people who are real tech-phobes: like where. For instance, you encounter a person who can’t even activate a card online on account of him or her not knowing how to use the Internet to access the specific website where he can do the activation. This can also be a situation where the politician is simply too busy to do his or her own personal social media work.

The third model under which politicians maintain social media pages is the one where they have their personal assistants updating the social media pages on their behalf. The reasons for this can be akin to those for the situation where the social media pages are updated by official aides.

Social media is here to stay for quite a while. There are, however, some three things that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it.

The first thing that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it is the realization, on the part of social media users, that they are giving up too much information about themselves on the social media platforms.

The second thing that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it is the emergence of another fad: which people take up, while abandoning social media. That is just the nature of people: that they are very excited by new things.

The third thing that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it is where people simply get bored with social media and stop using it. Actually, this has already happened with some people: under a scheme where many of the early adopters of social media have, by now, gotten bored and stopped using it whenever they are online. What has kept social media alive is the fact that there has been a continual flow of new people online, meaning that those who get bored are quickly replaced.

Having decided to hire a social media consultant, a point will come when you will have to do interviews for the position. We venture to look at questions you should ask when interviewing such a professional.

The first question you must ask when interviewing a prospective social media consultant, is as to what technical qualifications he or she has for the work.

The second question you must ask when interviewing a prospective social media consultant is as to how much experience he or she has in this type of work. At a technical level, the experience doesn’t seem to really matter: given the fact that social media experience is much like www.gmail.com experience. But still using the example of Gmail, there is more nuanced side to it: with respect to things like Gmail etiquette and things like knowledge of Gmail.com shortcuts. Those are the areas where experience would come in. Similarly, there are more nuanced aspects of social media usage, especially when social media is being used in a corporate setting for official uses, and it is for those things that experience is relevant.

The third question you must ask when interviewing a prospective social media consultant is as to what his or her expectations are, for the job.

Social media can be used for carrying out customer support functions. There are actually two models through which social media can be used in customer support.

The first model through which social media can be used in customer support is that in which customers’ queries are attended on a one on one basis through the social media. Thus, for instance, Twitter accounts can be created for this purpose: where you have customers typing in queries, and those queries being answered on Twitter in real time by people who are employed to do just that. Phone companies as well as the companies in the financial sector, have been known to use this model with considerable levels of success. Actually, when properly deployed, this model can reduce the numbers of queries that have to be addressed through the phone.

The second model through which social media can be used in customer support is that in which social media pages containing answers to the most frequently asked questions by customers are created and publicized. This is a less-than-ideal model, especially seeing that the customers could always get these answers from the main websites. Still, it is a good starting point for companies seeking to offer customer support through social media.

Mainstream media companies (like those that operate major TV stations, radio stations and newspapers) use social media in certain ways. The social media we are making reference to is in the form of things like Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz. The latter is a Google product, and it seems as if Google has a system where the moment you initiate Gmail usage at the www.gmail.com online site, you get a chance to open a Google Buzz account which then makes you a social media user.

The first way in which mainstream media companies use social media is where they leverage on its power to get real-time reports on events (from reporters as well as other people witnessing the events).

The second way in which mainstream media companies use social media is where they leverage on its power to get feedback on the content they present.

The third way in which mainstream media companies use social media is where they leverage on its power to market their content. It is worth noting, for instance, that most TV program presenters have official Twitter handles, which they use to announce things like expected guest appearances, thus encouraged viewers to tune in. Newspaper publishers use social media in a similar manner to push readership numbers up.

Social media is different from mainstream media in several fundamental ways.

Firstly, mainstream media is easier to control than social media (for the government authorities). Mainstream media operators can be easily controlled with threats of having their broadcasting licenses being withdrawn than social media operatives, who can always claim to be just exercising their right of expression. The question of threatening to withdraw the licenses of social media operatives simply doesn’t arise. Doing so would be akin to threatening to withdraw www.ymail.com licenses which most people using Ymail media for sending emails would view as an absurd threat, thanks to the fact that Ymail.com programming is done in such a manner that each user has his or her own account. So if you withdraw the entire license, you’d end up affecting too many people. And if you close individual accounts, the users whose accounts are closed can always set up new ones. Ultimately, the governments have figured out that the best way to control social media is by ignoring it.

Secondly, mainstream media is easier to monetize than social media (for the media operatives).

Thirdly, mainstream media is generally regarded as being more credible than social media. This is in spite of the fact that the messages from mainstream media are often very heavily ‘sanitized.’

Most governments in the world endeavor to control mainstream media. The more sophisticated ones control mainstream media through direct means. The less sophisticated ones control mainstream media directly, via censorship. Either way, mainstream media is controlled. But, surprisingly, most governments don’t see the need to control social media. We venture to find out why that is the case.

The first reason as to why most governments don’t see the need to control social media is because they know that the influence of such social media is limited.

The second reason as to why most governments don’t see the need to control social media is because they view it as a tool through which people can ventilate, thus reducing the chances of them revolting.

The third reason as to why most governments don’t see the need to control social media is because they view it as a tool through which they can collect intelligence. Through social media, it becomes possible for the governments to know what the people are thinking. If, for instance, the Georgia state government sets up a new social service to help poor Georgia residents buy food or to prevent homelessness it will, naturally, want to know what people are thinking about it. And social media can be helpful in that regard.

Firstly, you can decide to use social media to update the people you left behind, on the progress of your journey. This is important, because they may otherwise start having fears about your safety and general wellbeing. At another level, updating the people you left behind on your progress helps you share the experience with them, which is important, because the nature of some things is such that they tend to be more enjoyable when they are shared.

Secondly, you can decide to use social media to share what you encounter (say, in terms of sights) with the folks you left behind. This you can do through, among others, the photo sharing sites.

Thirdly, you can use social media to receive suggestions on things you can do and places you can visit, in the course of your journey (especially from people who have made similar journeys before).

Fourthly, you can use social media to receive information on happenings back home, from the people you left behind. That way, when you get back to wherever you came from, you don’t end up being totally disoriented. The updates you will have been receiving will help you get up and running fast enough.

It is possible for you to get paid for your blogging passion. That whole thing is referred to as ‘blogging for money.’ And there are at least three models you can use in blogging for money.

The first model you can use in blogging for money would be that in which you establish your own blogs and then monetize them.

The second model you can use in blogging for money would be the one where you get employment as a social media expert, and where your work ends up revolving around blogging. You may, for instance, be hired by a company like the one that runs the email service to correctional facilities, accessible at www.corrlinks.com, and commonly referred to as the Corrlinks prison email system. The brief would be for you to serve as the company’s social media director: maintaining its micro-blogging accounts, as well as the full-fledged blog domains. You can even be hired by a government department for this sort of role. Pretty much all types of organizations are turning to social media, and hiring experienced bloggers to serve as social media strategy advisors/implementers.

The third model you can use in blogging for money would be the one where you offer your services in the open market as a freelance writer, specializing in the production of blog articles.

Before hiring a social media consultant, a business organization is likely to be keen on understanding how such a professional can add value to it. It emerges that there are at least two levels at which a social media consultant can add value to a business organization.

The first level at which a social media consultant can add value to a business organization is the level at which the consultant can help the organization in acquiring, analyzing and utilizing business intelligence. Social media can be a rich source of business intelligence, just as we have the prison phone calls made by inmates during incarceration (typically using inmate account cards) being rich potential sources of security intelligence. Of course, translating the non-serious banter in social media into useful business intelligence can be a technically demanding piece of work.

The second level at which a social media consultant can add value to a business organization is the level at which the consultant can help the organization in carrying out public relations work. That may be under a scheme where the consultant does the actual public relations work. It may also be under a scheme where the consultant crafts the systems under which the public relations work is to be done for the organization using social media (by all the other members of the organization).

There are some three models under which politicians maintain social media pages.

The first model under which politicians maintain social media pages is the one where they personally update the said social media pages.

The second model under which politicians maintain social media pages is the one where they have their official assistants (the ones they have by virtue of their political offices) updating the social media pages on their behalf. This can become necessary in situations where the politicians in question happen to be non-conversant with the technology that the social media pages are based. You know that in this world, there are people who are real tech-phobes: like where. For instance, you encounter a person who can’t even activate a card online on account of him or her not knowing how to use the Internet to access the specific website where he can do the activation. This can also be a situation where the politician is simply too busy to do his or her own personal social media work.

The third model under which politicians maintain social media pages is the one where they have their personal assistants updating the social media pages on their behalf. The reasons for this can be akin to those for the situation where the social media pages are updated by official aides.

Social media is here to stay for quite a while. There are, however, some three things that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it.

The first thing that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it is the realization, on the part of social media users, that they are giving up too much information about themselves on the social media platforms.

The second thing that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it is the emergence of another fad: which people take up, while abandoning social media. That is just the nature of people: that they are very excited by new things.

The third thing that could lead to the demise of social media as we know it is where people simply get bored with social media and stop using it. Actually, this has already happened with some people: under a scheme where many of the early adopters of social media have, by now, gotten bored and stopped using it whenever they are online. What has kept social media alive is the fact that there has been a continual flow of new people online, meaning that those who get bored are quickly replaced.

Having decided to hire a social media consultant, a point will come when you will have to do interviews for the position. We venture to look at questions you should ask when interviewing such a professional.

The first question you must ask when interviewing a prospective social media consultant, is as to what technical qualifications he or she has for the work.

The second question you must ask when interviewing a prospective social media consultant is as to how much experience he or she has in this type of work. At a technical level, the experience doesn’t seem to really matter: given the fact that social media experience is much like www.gmail.com experience. But still using the example of Gmail, there is more nuanced side to it: with respect to things like Gmail etiquette and things like knowledge of Gmail.com shortcuts. Those are the areas where experience would come in. Similarly, there are more nuanced aspects of social media usage, especially when social media is being used in a corporate setting for official uses, and it is for those things that experience is relevant.

The third question you must ask when interviewing a prospective social media consultant is as to what his or her expectations are, for the job.

Social media can be used for carrying out customer support functions. There are actually two models through which social media can be used in customer support.

The first model through which social media can be used in customer support is that in which customers’ queries are attended on a one on one basis through the social media. Thus, for instance, Twitter accounts can be created for this purpose: where you have customers typing in queries, and those queries being answered on Twitter in real time by people who are employed to do just that. Phone companies as well as the companies in the financial sector, have been known to use this model with considerable levels of success. Actually, when properly deployed, this model can reduce the numbers of queries that have to be addressed through the phone.

The second model through which social media can be used in customer support is that in which social media pages containing answers to the most frequently asked questions by customers are created and publicized. This is a less-than-ideal model, especially seeing that the customers could always get these answers from the main websites. Still, it is a good starting point for companies seeking to offer customer support through social media.

Mainstream media companies (like those that operate major TV stations, radio stations and newspapers) use social media in certain ways. The social media we are making reference to is in the form of things like Facebook, Twitter and Google Buzz. The latter is a Google product, and it seems as if Google has a system where the moment you initiate Gmail usage at the www.gmail.com online site, you get a chance to open a Google Buzz account which then makes you a social media user.

The first way in which mainstream media companies use social media is where they leverage on its power to get real-time reports on events (from reporters as well as other people witnessing the events).

The second way in which mainstream media companies use social media is where they leverage on its power to get feedback on the content they present.

The third way in which mainstream media companies use social media is where they leverage on its power to market their content. It is worth noting, for instance, that most TV program presenters have official Twitter handles, which they use to announce things like expected guest appearances, thus encouraged viewers to tune in. Newspaper publishers use social media in a similar manner to push readership numbers up.

Social media is different from mainstream media in several fundamental ways.

Firstly, mainstream media is easier to control than social media (for the government authorities). Mainstream media operators can be easily controlled with threats of having their broadcasting licenses being withdrawn than social media operatives, who can always claim to be just exercising their right of expression. The question of threatening to withdraw the licenses of social media operatives simply doesn’t arise. Doing so would be akin to threatening to withdraw www.ymail.com licenses which most people using Ymail media for sending emails would view as an absurd threat, thanks to the fact that Ymail.com programming is done in such a manner that each user has his or her own account. So if you withdraw the entire license, you’d end up affecting too many people. And if you close individual accounts, the users whose accounts are closed can always set up new ones. Ultimately, the governments have figured out that the best way to control social media is by ignoring it.

Secondly, mainstream media is easier to monetize than social media (for the media operatives).

Thirdly, mainstream media is generally regarded as being more credible than social media. This is in spite of the fact that the messages from mainstream media are often very heavily ‘sanitized.’

Most governments in the world endeavor to control mainstream media. The more sophisticated ones control mainstream media through direct means. The less sophisticated ones control mainstream media directly, via censorship. Either way, mainstream media is controlled. But, surprisingly, most governments don’t see the need to control social media. We venture to find out why that is the case.

The first reason as to why most governments don’t see the need to control social media is because they know that the influence of such social media is limited.

The second reason as to why most governments don’t see the need to control social media is because they view it as a tool through which people can ventilate, thus reducing the chances of them revolting.

The third reason as to why most governments don’t see the need to control social media is because they view it as a tool through which they can collect intelligence. Through social media, it becomes possible for the governments to know what the people are thinking. If, for instance, the Georgia state government sets up a new social service to help poor Georgia residents buy food or to prevent homelessness it will, naturally, want to know what people are thinking about it. And social media can be helpful in that regard.

Firstly, you can decide to use social media to update the people you left behind, on the progress of your journey. This is important, because they may otherwise start having fears about your safety and general wellbeing. At another level, updating the people you left behind on your progress helps you share the experience with them, which is important, because the nature of some things is such that they tend to be more enjoyable when they are shared.

Secondly, you can decide to use social media to share what you encounter (say, in terms of sights) with the folks you left behind. This you can do through, among others, the photo sharing sites.

Thirdly, you can use social media to receive suggestions on things you can do and places you can visit, in the course of your journey (especially from people who have made similar journeys before).

Fourthly, you can use social media to receive information on happenings back home, from the people you left behind. That way, when you get back to wherever you came from, you don’t end up being totally disoriented. The updates you will have been receiving will help you get up and running fast enough.

It is possible for you to get paid for your blogging passion. That whole thing is referred to as ‘blogging for money.’ And there are at least three models you can use in blogging for money.

The first model you can use in blogging for money would be that in which you establish your own blogs and then monetize them.

The second model you can use in blogging for money would be the one where you get employment as a social media expert, and where your work ends up revolving around blogging. You may, for instance, be hired by a company like the one that runs the email service to correctional facilities, accessible at www.corrlinks.com, and commonly referred to as the Corrlinks prison email system. The brief would be for you to serve as the company’s social media director: maintaining its micro-blogging accounts, as well as the full-fledged blog domains. You can even be hired by a government department for this sort of role. Pretty much all types of organizations are turning to social media, and hiring experienced bloggers to serve as social media strategy advisors/implementers.

The third model you can use in blogging for money would be the one where you offer your services in the open market as a freelance writer, specializing in the production of blog articles.